Climate Change

An ancient virus found in Siberian permafrost is still capable of infecting, though the virus “can’t be said to be ‘alive,’” it’s still functional. Stephanie Pappas via Live Science: It’s 30,000 years…

The much despised media mogul, Rupert Murdoch, now owns the majority of National Geographic, which came with a price tag of $725 million dollars. Xeni Jardin via BoingBoing has the details: The National Geographic…

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Billing it as the “The Sunniest Climate-Change Story You’ve Ever Read,” New York Magazine‘s Jacob Chait says that “this is the year humans finally got serious about saving themselves from themselves.” He…

Robert Mendick Via The Telegraph: A Cambridge Professor has made the astonishing claim that three scientists investigating the melting of Arctic ice may have been assassinated within the space of a few…

If you’re in the Northern Hemisphere there’s a good chance that you’re enjoying a sweltering summer day, but according to the Telegraph an “unprecedentedly accurate” new model forecasts a mini-ice age by…

This post originally appeared on HoneyColony. Palm oil is used in a mind-boggling range of everyday products including shampoo, toothpaste and Nutella. In total, 50 million tons of palm oil is produced annually….

“Well, maybe not. Geo-engineering isn’t the easy and painless fix for climate change that many proponents say it is,” says Mark Buchanan, physicist and author, former editor with Nature and New Scientist,…

This posted was originally published on Common Dreams. See more of Sarah Lazare’s posts here. Marking yet another grim milestone for an ever-warming planet, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration revealed on…

Republished with permission from occupy.com/actout On this week’s episode, we shine a light on the dark money funded climate change deniers; the bible thumpers and snowball throwers who think their lack of…